9 Bible Verses about Animal Sacrifices, As A Type Of Christ
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For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers; if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified? But in them there was a remembrance of sins, year by year;read more.
for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore, coming into the world, he says, A sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou prepare me. Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wast not pleased with; then I said, Behold, I come,??n the volume of the book it is written of me,??o do thy will, O God. Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law, then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all. And every priest stood daily performing service and presenting often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but this [priest] having offered one sacrifice forever for sins, sat down on the right hand of God, henceforth waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering he has perfected forever the sanctified.
On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
Remove the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover was also sacrificed for us.
For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.
and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.
For every commandment of the law having been spoken by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of bullocks and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined upon you. And he sprinkled also the tabernacle, and all the implements of the service, in like manner, with blood.read more.
And almost all things, according to the law, are purified with blood, and without the pouring out of blood there is no forgiveness. It was necessary, therefore, that the symbols of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter into the sanctuary made with hands, a type of the true, but into heaven itself, and already has appeared before God for us, not that he may often present himself, as the chief priest enters into the sanctuary once a year with the blood of another [being]; since it was necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the world, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been manifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this is the judgment, so also Christ having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time without sin, to those who look for him for salvation.
For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is carried into the sanctuary by the chief priest are burnt without the encampment. Wherefore also Jesus, that he might purify the people through his blood, suffered without the gate. Let us therefore go out to him without the encampment, bearing his reproach;
And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four cherubs and in the midst of the elders, a lamb standing as if killed, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent into all the earth.
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